This was a gadget for dropping bombs by compressed air, which, according to its proud inventor, was to supersede the good old way of dropping them by pulling a bowden wire.
Not to mention the five-thousand-two-hundred-seventy-nine of the same that the spot beneath would get from the gadgetwhen it was just one foot short of the mile!
Okay, okay," I said, since I'd been sold on his gadget the moment I pictured that umbrella moving ferruleward like a whirling arrow.
Every two-bit tinkerer wants a handout to develop his world-shaking gadget that will suppress the fizz after the cap is removed from a pop bottle, or adapt any apartment-size bathtub for raising tropical fish.
I didn't even dare meddle with this gadget for tuning.
The question is," Scotty remarked, "did they take thegadget to the octopus cave?
We have to find that precious gadget even if it takes two solid weeks of diving.
If I make a--gadget to--short-circuit that conducting layer to the ground here.
You made a gadget that converts any sort of leaf to thanar.
Every member of the human race would become richer as a result of the gadget now attached to Lon Simpson's tractor.
The new gadget simply converted the compounds in the large coil to match those in the sample--in the tin can--and assembled them in the small coil according to the physical structure of the sample.
He just told me he's made a new gadget that'll kill us all.
It did not occur to him that his superiors might be trying frantically to break his sending beam to demand that he find out how Lon Simpson made his power gadget and how he converted vegetation, before it was too late.
We made a telescope mounting once, for an observatory in South Africa, but compared to thisgadget we worked on that one blindfolded!
I want to take another look at that gadget we installed," he said.
Putting explosive gas in the CO2 bottles," said Joe painstakingly, "wasn't adding a new gadget to a situation.
But I thought I'd have a chance to take any gadget he was hiding away from him first.
If I blow the charge too soon, it mightn't take the gadget clean out of the ship.
If Yaco can work out how it's done and build a gadget that does the same thing, they're getting the Hlats cheap.
But you might mention to Cooms you'd like to borrow the Hlat gadget to have it examined by some of your technical experts.
That thumb-sized gadget delivered the power of a hundred storage batteries and was the answer to a thousand engineering problems.
Edgar found himself staring fixedly at a top secret gadget still in the breadboard stage.
There was a Med Service gadget once--a tricky little device to produce contraction of chosen muscles.
But some businessman had a bright idea and got a tame researcher to link that gadget to ground induction currents.
On Texia they use ground-induction and the Med Service gadget linked together to serve as cattle fences.
Calhoun said undisturbedly: "Whoever was running the cattle fence found out their gadget wasn't working.
I just possibly might make a gadget that would create a cloud of ions around the person who carried it.
He even remembered to turn off his gadget because he would need it to avenge Jill.
He considered the fact that his own pistol had exploded the instant he'd turned the gadget on.
After assembly, the plutonium core was transported to Trinity Site to be inserted into the thing or gadget as the atomic device was called.
During this process workers piled up mattresses beneath the gadgetto cushion a possible fall.
After letting the temperatures of the core and the gadget equalize, the core fit perfectly to the great relief of all present.
The place not only contained every possible convenience and gadget but was crammed with bibelots and antiques, carefully chosen by Raymond and disputed by Martin, for, to the man from the future, all available artifacts were antiques.
And let us hope," Stanley added fervently, "that we'll find the gadget in one piece.
But that's what we're going to do--if the Professor's gadget works as he seems to think it will.
He stayed on because he wanted to find out what the trick was that made the gadget work.
Biff Hawton turned a very quizzical eye on the gadget and upon the demonstrator who completely ignored this sign of disbelief.
Illustration: TOY] The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy.
He unhooked the gadgetand restored normal service to himself.
He swore at it out of habit until he got out of bed, and then he realized that his gadget was hooked in and Central was cut off.
He put his gadget carefully away and combed his hair and ate some cold food around the house and drove over to see Rosie.
He hooked in the little gadget that didn't make private conversations possible on a party line, but did make it possible for a man to talk to himself ten days in the future.
He finished it and cut off his line from Central and hooked this gadget in.
He rang and rang and rang, on the cut-off line with his gadget hooked in to call July the twelfth.
